The competition in NHRA’s Pro Stock class may be getting tighter, but the Summit Racing team is still a step ahead.

Reigning world champion Jason Line won the season-opening Winternationals (Feb. 12) and Sunday his teammate, Greg Anderson, was victorious at the Arizona Nationals.

Anderson clocked a 6.547-second elapsed time at 211.43 mph to edge Drew Skillman’s 6.565-second, 210.50 mph lap in the finals.

“It was a brutal day, absolutely brutal, but I knew coming in it was going to be,” Anderson said. “The class is awesome right now. You read the internet stories and people say the class is dying and is going away and losing appeal, but this class is as strong as it ever was and is going to be. We have new blood in the class right now. This is going be a very competitive, very exciting year in Pro Stock.”

This was Anderson’s 87th career NHRA national event victory. He and Line combined for 16 wins last year – eight each – and they finished No. 1 and No. 2 in the point standings.

Anderson beat Kenny Delco, Shane Gray and Tanner Gray before ousting Skillman in the finals.

“I think every race I had (Sunday) was decided by less than a foot,” Anderson said. “It’s just a battle royal every time you stage the car, anybody can win. That’s what the fans like, that’s what’s all about. It’s tough on the drivers obviously, you want to have an advantage when you go up there and we had this much of an advantage and any small mistake and you were going to go home. We didn’t make that small mistake. Rob Downing, my crew chief, did a fantastic job with our race cars (Sunday). We don’t have the advantage like we had last year, we are just right now out racing people. We’re making better decisions on race day by just enough to get the job done. I just thank the Lord he’s on my team. He’s fantastic, a seven-time world champion. He’s the man. Ken Black is the man. My hat’s off to them. They are awesome and I thank the Lord they are on my team.”

Anderson was quick to credit his team for the success of the Summit Racing Camaros.

“It’s just a 100 percent team effort,” Anderson said. “You can’t win a Pro Stock race without having everything go perfectly over the weekend. We’ve just found a way to make less mistakes than the rest and that starts with Ken Black. He handpicked these people and he has the best and they do a great job. It’s not easy. We just somehow race as tough as we can possibly race and some days it is your day and some days it is not. We have more good days than bad lately.”